Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
ALAN ARKINEvery physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
More Alan Arkin Quotes
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn’t move me, and I tried to analyze.
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Things are never going to turn out how you think they will.
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn’t use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not.
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IN order to inform what I’m doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
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[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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The ancient Vedas – the oldest Hindu philosophy – and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that’s true, there’s no such thing as a past or a future – it’s all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.
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I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
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